Cannabis indica
By Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: indian hemp; hashisch.
Full of fun and mischief; then perhaps moaning and crying (Puls.) (A.).
LAUGHS IMMODERATELY AT EVERY TRIFLING WORD SPOKEN TO HIM (Apis, Bell., Stram.) (A.).
Anguish, with oppression (Ars., Lach.) (R.).
Constantly theorizing (A.).
Imagines that he hears music (Bell., Calc., Lyc., Merc., Nat-C., Stram.) (R.).
VERY FORGETFUL; FORGETS HIS LAST WORDS AND IDEAS; BEGINS A SENTENCE, BUT FORGETS WHAT HE INTENDS TO SPEAK (A.).
Shuts his eyes and is lost in delicious thoughts (R.).
EXALTATION OF SPIRITS (Coff., Phos., Stram.) (R.)
Inability to recall any thought or event on account of other thoughts crowding his brain (Anac., Kali-P., Lac-C.) (A.).
Great apprehension of approaching death (Acon., Ars., Calc., Cimic., Gels., Lac-C., Nit-Ac., Phos., Plat., Verat.) (A.).
Fixed ideas (Anac.) (R.).
DELIRIUM TREMENS (Agar., Ars., Hyos. Kali-Br., Lach., Nat-M., Nux-M., Nux-V., Op., Stram., Strych., Verat.) (A.).
EXCESSIVE LOQUACITY (Bell., Hyos., Lach., Stram., Verat.) (A.).
INCOHERENT TALK (Lach., Stram.) (R.).
Double consciousness (Anac., Lach.) (Bl.).
Mania of grandeur (Con., Phos.) (B.).
EXAGGERATION OF TIME AND DISTANCE (A.).
TIME SEEMS TOO LONG (Arg-N.); A FEW SECONDS SEEM AGES (A.).
Produces the most remarkable hallucinations and imaginations (D.).
DISTANCE SEEMS IMMENSE; A FEW RODS SEEM MILES (Glon.) (A.).
Delusion: head seems to be an inverted pendulum oscillating (K.).
Sees monstrous head on distant wall of the room (K.).
Clairvoyance (Anac., Crot-C., Hyos., Lach., Lyss., Nux-M., Op., Phos., Pyrus, Stram.) (Br.).
Unconscious every few minutes (R.).
SENSATION AS IF THE CALVARIUM WAS OPENING AND SHUTTING (Act-R.) (A.).
Stunning pain in the occiput (R.).
Shocks through the brain on regaining consciousness (R.).
Menses: very profuse; painful; too soon; too long (G.).
Violent uterine colic (Bell., Caul., Cimic., Mag-P., Nux-V., Puls., Vib.) (G.).
Sensation of swelling in the perineum, or near the anus, as if sitting on a ball (Sep.).
Increased sexual desire and hysteria during the menstrual period (Bl.).
URETHRITIS, WITH PURULENT DISCHARGE, GREAT BURNING AND TENDERNESS ON URINATING (Canth.); GLANS PENIS DARK RED AND SWOLLEN (D.).
Urinary organs: Urging after micturition, with much straining; dribbling after stream ceases (Thuj.); must wait a long time before the urine flows (Alum., Arn., Caust, Cop., Hep., Rhus-T., Sep.); stitching and burning in the urethra before, during and after urinating (R.).
Chordee (Canth., Cann-S., Nux-V., Pic-Ac.) (D.).
Oozing of white, glossy mucus on squeezing the glans (Hep., Kali-B., Sil.) (R.).
It is one of our great remedies in gonorrhœa (Bt.).
SPASMODIC CONTRACTION OF THE SPHINCTER VESICÆ ON URINATING (D.).
Dull pain in the region of the right kidney (Br.).
Nephritic colic (Berb., Lyc., Ocim-C., Puls.) (B.).
Buzzing and ringing in the ear (Bell., Chin., Puls.) (R.).
Extreme sensitiveness to noise (Bell., Bor., Coff., Nux-V., Stram., Sulph.) (Br.).
Hears noises like boiling water (R.).
Involuntary shaking of the head (Agar., Alum., Caust., Hell., Lyc., Merc., Nat-M., Zinc.) (Br.).
RAVENOUS APPETITE (Amm-C., Arg-M., Ars., Calc-P., Chin., Cina, Ferr., Graph., Iod., Lyc., Nat-M., Nux-V., Petr., Phos., Sulph.) (K.).
Weakness of the extremities, amounting to paralysis
(Gels., Kali-P., Plb., Sil.) (R.).
After sexual intercourse, backache (Nit-Ac., Sabal-Ser.) (Br.).
Backache, worse from sitting (Kobalt., Sep., Zinc.) (F.).
Satyriasis (Canth., Phos., Stram.) (Br.).
Prolonged thrill during coition (Br.).
Dreams of the dead (Anac., Ars., Calc, Sil., Crot-H., Graph., Kali-C., Mag-C., Med., Phos, Sulph., Thuj. (K.).
Prophetic dreams (Asaf., Bor., Mang., Sulph.).
In renal diseases, Cannabis Ind. is indicated when uræmia sets in, attended by severe headache (F.).
Paralysis, with tingling in the affected parts (Staph.) (F.).
Stammering and stuttering (Caust., Stram.) (C.).
Oppression of chest, with deep, laboured breathing. He feels as if suffocated, and has to be fanned (Ant-T., Apis, Ars., Carb-V,, Chin., Ferr., Med., Sulph.)(C.).
AGGRAVATION: From coffee; while eating; from liquor and tobacco; lying on right side; and in the morning.
AMELIORATION: From fresh air; from cold water; and from rest.
RELATIONSHIP. Compare: Anac., Arg-N., Bell., Hyos., Kali-P., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Nat-M., Phos., Stram., and Zinc.
In urinary diseases and gonorrhœa, Canth. has more tenesmus; Cann-I. more burning and smarting.